Ezra Pound. First edition, second printing. Dust Jacket: Good+ an unclipped jacket with original price ($2.75) intact on inside, lower flap. Some chipping on top/bottom of spine. The front jacket has 4.5" tear in it, but jacket is still intact. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: A New Directions Book, 1948. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. The book is in real nice shape. There is some foxing on flyleaf pages. Otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 118 pp.
The Cantos is a series of 120 long poems by the American poet, essayist, and cultural critic Ezra Pound. Pound began work on them as early as 1904, publishing the first three in Poetry magazine in 1917.
This is one of the most significant sections of Pound's Cantos, written while the poet was incarcerated in an American prison camp near Pisa following the Second World War for his treasonous broadcasts on Rome Radio. It was awarded the first Bollingen Prize in 1948.
